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You need points before you can post threads ... some people must die before the points materialise

My introduction hello got 219 views and one ... ONE reply,

 

I got loads of them and I'm still alive.

What made you think Premium gives you the right to a signature, it specifically tells you it doesn't give you a signature:

https://www.digitalpoint.com/help/premium

 

Well you can use the marketplace, but you can't have a signature, that's what it says...

 

Not really, a near death experience will suffice.

 

It seems to be happening once again. Today on Spy I believe there were 10 new sign ups in a row.....very odd.

 

Care to hazard a guess based on your experience, as to how many out of the 10 would be legit?

 

Based on what I have seen, 99% of all signups with 10 character alpha-numeric names are spammers and somewhere north of 75% of all other signups are legit.

 

Others have mentioned this 10 character thing as to fake accounts. I wonder why they go for that? But then again, who can figure out the mindset of a spammer/scammer?

 

It's the default setting of whatever spamming software they use, the usernames are auto generated.

 

I just checked *SPY* and there were 14 new members, 13 of them had 10 letters/numbers. "This is curiouser and curiouser"-Alice from Alice in Wonderland.

 

I remember reading in the forum terms one rule said don't respond to introduction posts just to get your post numbers up. Could be that turns some new members away. Although I do think it's a good idea.

 

Kind of a strange rule. If you don't want people to welcome newbies aboard, why have an Introduction section? I admit that I have not been in that section for quite a while, but probably should more often. I can understand a newbie posting there, not getting any replies or welcomes, and then abandoning DP due to its lack of traffic, etc.

 

That rule was instituted when you needed 25 posts in order to be established. A lot of members failed to realize then that posting in *Introductions* did not count towards the 25. Now of course all that has changed and one needs 3 likes in order to get established.

 

Good to know that the intro posts don't count. I don't remember seeing that when I read the rules.

I do like that 3-like rule. It urges one to think about his content before actually posting it.

 

I think that the newbies just dont have anything to talk about. There are not so many users on this site but there are a lot of forums. These forum topics are like facebook groups. A facebook group may have 1000 mebers but only 100 like what has been pposted which leave the question. Where are the rest of the 900 people?